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As about 20,000 boys in the Eastern Cape are expected to pilgrimage to the mountains for their traditional initiation, government departments and traditional leaders are holding camps to prepare them for the tough journey to manhood. The 2023 initiation season officially started on May 5 but for now, will only cater for out-of-school boys until the June school holidays.
Lesufi’s secret tender
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was recorded in a meeting he held with his team in Tshwane, during which his department tenders were discussed. In the recording, which City Press has heard, Lesufi told the team that, as an MEC, he had to ensure that people were satisfied at all costs.
Magashule set to tell elders that he is a target
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule is set to begin his “consultations” with erstwhile party leaders, armed with claims that the move to have him step aside is politically motivated. He will also claim that law enforcement agencies are being used to settle political scores, City Press has learnt.
The amaXhosa kingdom continues to be plagued by royal dilemmas.
When the new monarch, King Ahlangene Vulikhaya Sigcawu, returned from Malawi, where he was working as South Africa’s ambassador to that country, he found that he had been locked out of the royal residence.
When President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the certificate of recognition of Prince Vulikhaya as king of amaXhosa on February 19, it was hoped that the move would unite the amaXhosa royals who had been fighting over who should take over the throne.
Instead, it has further divided the amaXhosa nation, with those who oppose Vulikhaya’s ascendence not only taking the matter to court, but also allegedly locking him out of Nqadu Great Place, his ancestral home.
AmaXhosa royal family committed to healing wounds from succession battle PREMIUM By Lulamie Feni - 04 March 2021
AmaXhosa royal family members want to extend an olive branch to relatives who objected to King Ahlangene Vulikhaya Sigcawu taking the crown.
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